Articles

At the AUSA 2015 show, VITA announced their newest sponsor member, the U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), who is developing the U.S. Army’s Modular Open RF Architecture (MORA).

Mike Slonosky discusses the architects and integrators challenges as customers implement increasing requirements for safety- and security-critical applications.

Aaron Frank discusses the benefits of Intel's new Broadwell processor to embedded defense applications.

Steve Edwards discusses the past and present of standards such as VPX's ability to handle the demands of high-performance embedded computing applications.

The growing deployment of single board computers in military systems brings with it a number of engineering challenges.

We discuss the C4ISR/EW [Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance/Electronic Warfare] Interoperability (VICTORY) initiative and its application on JLTV.

John McHale with Military Embedded Systems discusses radiation testing and qualification requirements for defense and space agencies are getting tougher and embracing TOR standards.

As the need for data security increases, the need to support both encrypted data and less sensitive data within the same system is also on the rise.

Jerry Gipper of VITA Technologies describes the broad range of challenges from security to scheduling aerospace and defense applications must support.

The aerospace and defense embedded COTS market has started to see whole new classes of small and ultra-small line-replaceable unit (LRU) offerings.

Aaron Frank and Jacob Sealander discuss meeting SWaP targets of traditional ISR platforms.

We discuss the defense and aerospace rugged-systems market's thermal management and processing power demands.